And now they'll get it.

was a very strong turn out for Harold Washington in the Black ,Latino, LGBT and liberal communities to offset the white vote.

Chuy needed more support in the Black wards to offset the strong support in the white communities that went to rahm.

Plus, a few months ago no one knew Chuy. Not to mention, Chuy promised all sorts of new programs and our city is deeply in debt.

Chicago is still pretty segregated. It's not as bad as in the '80s. But, it's bad.

Of course more white votes would have been awesome.

There were tons of advertisements with lies in them from rahm.

I know Obama is from Chicago. But, he keeps coming back endorsing candidates for senator and governor who then lose to republicans.

Anyway it's true lots of blacks didn't vote for Chuy. But, lots more whites didn't.

Richard Daley and Jane Byrne split the vote. Washington 36%, Byrne 34%, Daley 30%.

I say "voters" rather than "people," because it's only the people who showed up at the polls who matter in an election. Clearly, those voters decided to go with the incumbent, rather than the challenger.

So, Chicago has its mayor, and that's that.

I think they got the result they wanted.

Those who do not have to live with the decision.

So, Rahm Emanuel will be the Mayor. And there it is. It demonstrates that things are as they always are on election day.

They'll be that way next year, too. If we want to win, we have to include that fact in our plans. People decide whether to vote or not, and the outcome is determined by those who decide to vote.

What percentage of Chicagoan's voted? Was the voter turnout low or high?

About 568,000 voted out of 1.4 million registered.

Maybe Pickle can crawl back under his rock.

West of Western anyway.

Yeah, of course Beverly and Mt. Greenwood are all white, they won't let black people move in there.

Mostly populated by city workers, police, fire, water dept. All good jobs and for decades handed out by the Jerimiah Joyce's organization. They were allies of the Daley clan. But Rahm cut them out of the O'Hare concessions. So Pickle, Jerimiah's son who runs the organization now, went out for Chuy. And lost.

I can't stand a lot of the Joyce's, Pickle and his drug dealer brother particularly. Nice to see a comeuppance.

I'd like to see that number. He got trounced in most of the majority Latino wards.

In the 22nd Ward (87% Latino), for example, Chuy won 80% of the vote. It's really not possible that Rahm won Latinos in this election. Where are you getting that?

on reports of ballots being prepared with Rahm's name already selected on ballots as they were handed out?


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026471254

Just kidding. It's probably bullshit and nobody cares.

It is something I wouldn't give Rahm a pass on myself. Chicago is notorious for it's graft and corruption. I lived in Illinois (Chicago burbs) when I was married and found that there was not much in the whole state that was not tainted by corruption. But I am sure you are correct in that "nobody" cares about the corruption/voter fraud allegations since it's the norm there.

included a typo, I would NOT give Rahm a pass on anything like that.

And as for your response, back at ya...